Unpopular Culture
Unpopular Culture

Author: Martin Lüthe

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789089649669

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This collection includes eighteen essays that introduce the concept of unpopular culture and explore its critical possibilities and ramifications from a large variety of perspectives. Proposing a third term that operates beyond the dichotomy of high culture and mass culture and yet offers a fresh approach to both, these essays address a multitude of different topics that can all be classified as unpopular culture. From David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to Zane Grey and fan fiction, from Christian Rock and Country to Black Metal, from Steven Seagal to Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge, from The Simpsons to The Real Housewives, from natural disasters to 9/11, from thesis hatements to professional sports, these essays find the unpopular across media and genres, and they analyze the politics and the aesthetics of an unpopular culture (and the unpopular in culture) that has not been duly recognized as such by the theories and methods of cultural studies.

Unpopular Culture
Unpopular Culture

Author: John Weeks

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780226878119

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John R. Weeks based his study on long-term observations made at the British Armstrong Bank in the UK. Not one person, from the CEOs to the junior clerks had anything good to say about its corporate culture, yet the way things were done never seemed to alter.

Unpopular Culture
Unpopular Culture

Author: Bart Beaty

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0802094120

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Artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War, seeking instead to instill the medium with experimental and avant-garde tendencies commonly associated with the visual arts. This book addresses this transformation.

Un/Popular Culture
Un/Popular Culture

Author: Kathleen Martindale

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780791432891

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Offers a lucidly written analysis of the complex and provocative terrain of lesbian literary and cultural theory.

Unpopular Culture
Unpopular Culture

Author: Alex Solis

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780997308150

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Pop culture shapes our society and our lives. In this series, I'm exploring pop culture icons in an alternate reality that reflects our current society. I hope to help people see things from a new perspective, or at the very least, enjoy nostalgic feelings and a good laugh to brighten their day.

Unpopular Cultures
Unpopular Cultures

Author: Steve Redhead

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780719036521

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Where legal theory, deviance and cultural studies collide, a whole new area of popular cultural studies has grown. This text provides an introduction to this field, covering such diverse areas as sport, the arts, popular music, heritage, tourism, youth culture, information technology and various mass media.

Unpopular Culture
Unpopular Culture

Author: Bart Beaty

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-12-15

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1442633417

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In the last fifteen years or so, a wide community of artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War. These artists reject both the traditional form and content of comic books (hardcover, full-colour 'albums' of humour or adventure stories, generally geared towards children), seeking instead to instil the medium with experimental and avant-garde tendencies commonly associated with the visual arts. Unpopular Culture addresses the transformation of the status of the comic book in Europe since 1990. Increasingly, comic book artists seek to render a traditionally degraded aspect of popular culture un-popular, transforming it through the adoption of values borrowed from the field of 'high art.' The first English-language book to explore these issues, Unpopular Culture represents a challenge to received histories of art and popular culture that downplay significant historical anomalies in favour of more conventional narratives. In tracing the efforts of a large number of artists to disrupt the hegemony of high culture, Bart Beaty raises important questions about cultural value and its place as an important structuring element in contemporary social processes.

Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture
Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture

Author: Anthony Lioi

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 147256765X

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, Nerd Ecology is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, The Hunger Games, and superhero comics such as Green Lantern and X-Men, Anthony Lioi maps out the development of nerd culture and its intersections with the most fundamental ecocritical themes. In this way Lioi finds in the narratives of unpopular culture - narratives in which marginalised individuals and communities unite to save the planet - the building blocks of a new environmental politics in tune with the concerns of contemporary ecocritical theory and practice.

Introducing Japanese Popular Culture
Introducing Japanese Popular Culture

Author: Alisa Freedman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-18

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1000864170

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Specifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and provides a thorough analysis of the historical and contemporary trends that have shaped artistic production, as well as politics, society, and economics. As a result, more than being a time capsule of influential trends, this book teaches enduring lessons about how popular culture reflects the societies that produce and consume it. With contributions from an international team of scholars, representing a range of disciplines from history and anthropology to art history and media studies, the book covers: Characters Television Videogames Fan media and technology Music Popular cinema Anime Manga Spectacles and competitions Sites of popular culture Fashion Contemporary art. Written in an accessible style with ample description and analysis, this textbook is essential reading for students of Japanese culture and society, Asian media and popular culture, globalization, and Asian Studies in general. It is a go-to handbook for interested readers and a compendium for scholars.

Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture
Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture

Author: William Irwin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780742551756

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Containing thirteen articles, this book makes the case to philosophers that popular culture is worthy of their attention. It considers popular art forms such as movies, television shows, comic books, children's stories, photographs, and rock songs.